Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference will look at three problems Chicanos face: immigration, acculturation and the role of women. Organizers stress that the symposium is open to all. One of its primary purposes is to "let people outside our culture know about us," Salvador Barajas '81, one of the organizers, said Tuesday...
...Myers's attempt to portray the noble and tragic emperor gets bogged down in a cycle of sad, mournful, barely audible line-readings followed by maniacal, ear-shattering ranting and ravings. Myers fails to stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health...
Last week, in a solemn address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, President Carter outlined his approach to keeping prices down. His stress, appropriately, was on reducing the Government's own contributions to inflation, thereby setting an example for the private economy. To that end, Carter...
Carter is expected to stress his pay-freeze suggestion when, in a week or so, he begins meeting on a fairly regular basis with business leaders at the White House. One result of any restraints on the top executives' income is that raises for lower-level managers would be pinched to preserve the traditional pay gap between echelons. Further, there is some question about the effectiveness of a freeze. A worker making $10,000 or $15,000 will not be overcome with a need for sacrifice upon hearing that an executive earning $400,000 is forgoing a raise...
...become the nation's No. 1 worry: inflation. In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, Carter was also to discuss some of the nation's other pressing economic problems: energy and the fall in value of the dollar overseas. But the stress was to be on combatting the rise in prices that threatens to undermine all the achievements of the Administration in promoting economic growth and reducing unemployment...